I don't think it is even that. I think it is just company Kool-aid that is soul crushing. I have always been a self motivator and have excelled in my career, but when company Kool-aid stuff starts happening it makes me want to run for the hills. If people don't want to work without this stupid shit, FIRE THEM, but don't make the rest of us who are working and doing well without that crap have to partake in it. It is demeaning and insulting.

Or any non-self hosted cloud in general, get what they deserve. We are using internally hosted Zimbra collaboration and Nextcloud. Screw Microshaft. We are happily saving hundreds of thousands JUST ON EMAIL ALONE.

Hosted SaaS always has been and always will be a scam. On-prem, self provided web services are fine. I bend over backwards to avoid putting anything in hosted cloud services and it has worked well. In my current company, which is a huge fast food franchise, we were given approval to do our own thing. In 7 years we have saved over $6.4 million by doing everything in house.

This is the weaponization of security software against the owner of the machine that we have all said was coming. Security is nice, but security that works against the wishes of the owner of the machine is exactly the opposite of that and is, by definition, malware.

The definition of malware is software that works against the wishes of the owner. The owner should have ultimate control over it. When a manufacturer has more control over the device than the owner, it is pre-loaded with malware even if that software is official software. The only way this shit will ever stop is a consumer bill of rights that guarantees that hardware and software are separate entities and that the owner should always have access to change or alter the software on that device without the manufacturer going full evil and trying their damdest to brick it where you can't use it.

Digital is perfect only for the parts that are not thrown away. Digital algorithms frequently parts of data streams that it deems as not necessary. Analog typically has the entire stream even if not useful or is considered noise. It comes from a different perspective of the definition of perfect. There is more than one. Digital is not complete, therefor imperfect.

I hate this with a purple passion. As an old fart that grew up in the 70's and 80's that had to live through the shit show that was the SuperFriends era with the wonder twins, the entire reason that DC got bitch slapped by Marvel in that era is because DC was so damn childish and "bright". Marvel covered tough topics and was dark. It was awesome. Marvel also bitchslapped DC at the theaters with their dark take on the superheroes. Prior to Thor Ragnarok, Marvel did humor RIGHT. The injected humor fit with the characters (hulk slamming Loki), but as of Ragnarok even Marvel went with the stupid humor shit. Taika Waititi and Disney destroyed Marvel. When I saw Ragnarok and Thor, a God, throw a rubber bouncy ball against a glass window that didnt break, but the returned ball knock Thor down, I just about got up and walked out. And now we have Superman on the DC side bringing back Krypto the super dog. We are only one small step away from the PTSD inducing wonder twins coming back. I refuse to watch this drivel and won't be seeing this movie. Screw bright. Bring back dark.

As a child of the 70's who lived through the stupid ass Super Friends age, I want no part of this new Superman that brings stupid shit like Krypto back into this. Marvel used to rock because it was much darker and everyone wrote off DC from the 70's on because Marvel got it. But then finally DC got dark and brooding and it was wonderful, but now the pendulum has swung back to this level of shit and Marvel is not immune. I would say the enshitification started with Thor Ragnarok and having Taika Waititi be the director. Taika is a enormously talented COMEDIAN. But he should not be driving any franchise that thrived on being serious, dark and brooding. He threw in humour in places and ways that just did not fit. Like Thor throwing a bouncy ball up against a glass window that did not break, but the ball knocks Thor down. I just about got up and walked out. Now you have DC bringing back the childish shit that I had to endure in the 70's and 80's. Give me back my dark and brooding and get rid of this crap. I won't be watching this new superman.

Mobile in general and touch screens specifically will never replace PC's for real work. Mobile devices and touch screens only really work for consumption only devices. But that also is the direction that the tech sector wants to push us. They don't want us able to create our own code. If we can create our own code, then its impossible for them to artificially cripple things so that functionality can be sold back to you.

I wouldn't say that I've known this, but this does seem like a very small leap of logic considering that metals have long been known to be able to cold weld when in space. When to chunks of identical metal and cut apart in space, or cut apart on earth and then carefully etched to remove oxidation once in space, when put back together, they become one object again. When there is no oxidative barrier, the lattice just rejoins together. This story seems like it is the same effect. And my non-scientific guess is that at the nanoscale level, oxygen would take time to get there, so basically cold welding can happen at a nano scale before oxygen is able to get into the small area.

That is code for, "it doesn't lie well". Meaning it doesn't misrepresent capabilities or features and doesn't hide faults. Sounds to me like LLM's are functioning exactly the way consumers would like them to work. But this brings to mind an interesting concept. With human sales or support who lie or misrepresent, in consumer centered cases, it should be possible to force companies to cough up their LLM training modules and prove they are lying in court!!!!

You need to realize that both sides are corrupt and always have been. They just have different end goals. Both sides like what they see Trump doing, that is the only explanation why nothing is being done to close all of those loopholes.

Clarification, on what I said above. The title says never use biometrics. That was meant to say never use biometrics ALONE.

Biometrics can be forced by police. Passwords cannot. The only time biometrics should ever be used is somewhat as a 2nd factor but better as a 3rd factor for systems that support it. Each one protects against different vectors of abuse. Passwords are known but can be shared. Biometrics can be forced but cannot easily be shared. Physical tokens can be forced or stolen. Many other so called 2nd and 3rd factor authentication mechanisms are utilized because they allow companies to uniquely identify you as a person, so those should be avoided. Phone based codes for instance allows them to tie what is usually just a random username or account to a real physical human identity. Zero trust should always be the goal.

Password, biometrics, and tokens together equal someone that knows something,has something, and that that actual person is present but it does so in a way that does not necessarily have to tie a real human identity to that account. Even the biometrics without significant additional information cannot be tied to a real humans name, address, phone number etc. But I also believe that only password should be a requirement. The rest should always be up to the user. There are legitimate use cases where people NEED to allow other family members access to their accounts. That is 100% the decision of the owner of the account, not the company providing the account.

The really sad part is that the fact that everyone isn't scrambling to close these loopholes proves that everyone, Democrats included, like what they are seeing and want to use it themselves. Unless something extreme happens, this will be the new normal for both parties. All of these protections turned out to be just best practice guidelines, but none of it had any teeth and that made it ripe for someone like Trump to come in and actually push it to the limits. This needs to stop and stop immediately, but no politicians are actually moving to do it. Only lip service that other side is using this badly. CLOSE THE DAMN HOLES with laws that have teeth.